Surprised at all the suggestions for essentially turning standard into modern.
The only thing I wish was always standard legal was a 3 CMC red wipe. Having the forced RW wipe for Guilds is a big spanner in the works for making decks that I would like to play.
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EDH RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Surprised at all the suggestions for essentially turning standard into modern.
Really? Its no surprise this current Standard is the most 'modern like' in some time, and is popular for likely that reason.
I feel that standard hasn't been this close to modern since maybe Khans-BFZ when we had fetches and fetchable duals (the 5 tango/"battle" lands) or Innistrad-RTR standard when we had the check/support lands with shocks (like we do now). Both formats I enjoyed a lot, this one too. I feel that this format is really diverse
as much as I really like those formats, I think that always having a format like that would ruin the purpose or make them less fun since we'd be used to it
I think its no shock (lol) that having the land base to support multi-colour decks WELL, enables a robust metagame that if supported (discard/counters/burn) with the very very typical creature support (green/white) gives us a ready made environment for success.
I just want Blossoming Defense back. It gave green enough game to survive against decks that use a lot of target removal like Orzhov typically does, and it can still be played around via edicts, of which there are three different choices in the meta at the moment.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
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Vintage: Dredge | Legacy: Burn, Goblins, Soldier | Standard: Mono-Red Aggro
Commander: Nicol Bolas, Sliver Overlord, Rafiq
Casual: Selesnya Saproling Smackdown, Izzet Labs, Rebel
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The only thing I wish was always standard legal was a 3 CMC red wipe. Having the forced RW wipe for Guilds is a big spanner in the works for making decks that I would like to play.
RRGrenzo plays your deck, GGYeva's mono green control, WW9-tails trys desperately for monowhite not to suck
RWBUTymna and Kraum's saboteur tribal, UWG Kestia's Enchantress Aggro, RUB Jeleva casts big dumb spells, RGB Vaevictis' big critters can kill your critters hard
Arena Standard
UUUU Tempo, since before it was cool
Various Wx decks running Fountain of Renewal and Day of Glory
Anything I can cram Chaos Wand in to
Really? Its no surprise this current Standard is the most 'modern like' in some time, and is popular for likely that reason.
Spirits
I feel that standard hasn't been this close to modern since maybe Khans-BFZ when we had fetches and fetchable duals (the 5 tango/"battle" lands) or Innistrad-RTR standard when we had the check/support lands with shocks (like we do now). Both formats I enjoyed a lot, this one too. I feel that this format is really diverse
as much as I really like those formats, I think that always having a format like that would ruin the purpose or make them less fun since we'd be used to it
Spirits
U: Negate, Essence Scatter
B: Ultimate Price, Duress
R: Lightning Strike, Smelt
G: Fog, Naturalize, Rampant Growth
C: Encroaching Wastes, Elixir of Immortality
Not super high power level stuff, but generally good cards that usually see play.
Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit
Rootwater Alligator
Tolaria
Dance of Many
Copper Tablet
Warp Artifact
Greater Werewolf
Hungry Mist
Triassic Egg
Devouring Deep
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!